Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian, anti-consumerist, pro-environment group/magazine, Adbusters initiated the call for a protest. The ensuing series of events helped lead to media awareness that inspired Occupy protests and movements around the world. In awarding Workhouse its Platinum Award, industry publication PRNews noted "The results, obviously, have been spectacular. There’s hardly a newspaper, Internet or broadcast media outlet that hasn’t covered OWS.
"[7] The protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. On December 29, 2012, Naomi Wolf of The Guardian newspaper provided U.S. government documents which revealed that the FBI and DHS had monitored Occupy Wall Street through its Joint Terrorism Task Force, despite labelling it a peaceful movement.[9] Origins[edit] Overview[edit] "We are the 99%"[edit] Goals[edit]
Bankers’ bonuses are ‘like penis extensions’ claims Ken Livingstone. My skyscraper is more obviously phallic than yours Bankers’ bonuses are the latest battleground on which Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone have clashed with the latter describing them as being “like penis extensions”. Former London mayor Mr Livingstone explained: “In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I’d often open by saying, this isn’t the world I would have created.
Bankers’ bonuses are like penis extensions, among a small league of men – mine is bigger than yours. “The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. London Mayor Mr Johnson hit back: “If you look at where we are now as a society, we are endlessly focused on the very narrow, newspaper-driven agenda of rage against anybody who creates wealth, and that sort of hatred of bankers and bonuses – which I perfectly understand emotionally – is just aimed at the wrong target. “It is why I think in the end he won’t be prime minister. “What is the point of that; how does that help Londoners? EU: we'll make UK cut bank bonuses - Europe - World. The plans, which are likely to go further than those proposed so far in the UK, would meet significant opposition from the City of London, which claims that cutting benefit packages would result in an exodus of talent to Asia and America. But the new restrictions could not be blocked by the Government if a majority of other European countries vote in favour of them.
The proposal by Michel Barnier – the EU Commissioner in charge of financial services – emerged as G20 leaders meeting in Cannes failed to produce concrete plans to tackle the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis. In a dramatic day, the key developments included: *The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, last night survived a tense confidence vote in parliament, although subsequent demands for national elections from opposition parties put the next vital bailout instalment of €8bn in jeopardy. Speaking to The Independent in London, Mr Barnier described the situation facing Europe as "grave".
The Top 10 Films that Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists. By Tim Hjersted One of the most entertaining yet unsurprising aspects of Occupy Wall St has been the response from traditional media. Whether intentionally playing dumb or genuinely clueless, the mainstream media has failed to inform the public and substantially address the key issues. But why did tens of thousands of people risk arrest all over the world to set up encampments and protest the status quo? For everyone who has been following independent, alternative media, the answer is obvious. People who have been clued in to what's been going on in this country for the last decade are responding: Finally!
A movement to match the scale of the problem is taking root here in America! Seen in this light, it's understandable that the press would feign confusion. Our demands are too big to be mentioned. And so from the media: We have no demands. Of course, for all the people who still get informed by the mass media, there is much work to do. (My comments in bold) 10. 8. 7. 6. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Credit crunch consequences: three years after the crisis, what's changed? | Business | The Observer. It was supposed to have been the day the world changed.
The credit crunch "officially" began on 9 August 2007, and there were plenty ready to dance on the grave of capitalism and the free markets. But three years on, for all the hand-wringing, the economic upheaval and the promises of politicians, there is a whiff of business as usual in the air. The banks have returned to substantial profit, City bonuses are moving back to dizzying heights, international efforts for further co-operation have largely come unstuck, cranes are once more rising over the Square Mile and house prices are moving north.
Many are beginning to question whether anything has really changed at all; others maintain that things have simply got worse, that the old hegemony has been reinforced rather than loosened, widening the disparity between the wealthy and the rest. "There have been far fewer repercussions than there were after the 1930s," he adds. The money markets became petrified. Heads rolled.